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* [[Accidental Innuendo]]: "I want my mommy." "Yeah, I want your mommy."

** "Oh, don't leave! You'll miss my coming-out party!"

** In the first season Halloween episode, Rita: "I love to get nasty, it's so nice!"

** Tommy, Zordon's paladin, or someone who just wants revenge, and doesn't mind throwing his friends under the bus to do it? Does he divorce himself from the Green Ranger?

* [[Artistic License History]]: Er, guys? 18th century Britain colonized the ''east'' coast. Like New York, New Jersey and the Carolinas. Not the west coast, like California. Real life wrote this plot, though. They were stuck in Australia because of script and scheduling problems with the movie. But the TV episode schedule caught up to them. So the solution? Film a couple of episodes where the Rangers as students holiday in Australia. While the production crew was in Australia as well, they filmed a couple of episodes in a historical village just outside of Sydney, which gave us colonial Angel Grove. [[Power Rangers]] has never attempted to be accurate in anything, science, history, physics, etc.

* [[Badass Decay]]/[[Villain Decay]]: Name a villain who wasn't subject to this. Lord Zedd gets special mention, as he had to be toned down after the [[Moral Guardians]] deemed him too scary.

** Tommy. He started out as a villain and only got cooler when he became a good guy.

** Scorpina avoided this fate by going the way of [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]].

** [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] argues that Zedd was actually more effective ''after'' his marriage with Rita. Citing that pre-marriage Zedd merely destroyed the Green Ranger powers, while post-marriage Zedd destroyed the Thunderzords, captured the Rangers ally Ninjor (briefly), captured the Falconzord (briefly), eventually destroyed the Ninja coins and ''blew up the Command Center''.

** And ignoring the fact that Kim was one of the most loved characters (though Kat I can't attest for).

* [[Die for Our Ship]]: Tommy/Kim vs Tommy/Kat.

** It's actually part of Shuki Levy's [[Signature Style]] (as seen with the other Saban shows' themes, and even ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'') to have ''insanely'' hummable, memorable theme songs that basically consist of [[Title Theme Tune|the show's name]] and the word "Go."

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqXen7mC1So Masaaki Endoh's] version of the song turns the earworm into an Epic Earworm

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwup4ItqyNQ Bulk and Skull's theme]

** Also, some of the more memorable monsters, including Pudgy Pig, King Sphinx, and Dark Warrior.

** Scorpina having a huge fanbase is pretty logical considering that she's the show's embodiment of [[Evil Is Sexy]], at least in her regular form.

* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: [[Ms. Fanservice|Scorpina]] in her regular form. [[Nightmare Fuel|This is completely averted when she transforms however.]]

** Rita Repulsa, from the second season onwards after applying special makeup to make herself look a helluva lot more younger and beautiful.

* [[Fan Yay]]: Jason. He hangs around a gym, tends toward fanservice as much as any other male ranger, is always hanging around Tommy...The false gay porn rumors only made it worse. Also, Zedd for that metal codpiece.

* [[First Installment Wins]]: This is likely the only series the general population thinks about in regards to the the 18-year-old franchise.

** Lord Zedd once sarcastically asked, "What is it this time, Finster? A monster that blows itself up?" At the time, simply a humorous jab at the show's [[Once an Episode]] fantasy conventions. Nowadays, people are more aware that "a monster that blows itself up" has a very realistic context. And even putting the real world out of it, ''[[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy]]'' takes the concept and plays it for ''serious'' drama.

** There was an episode in which a time capsule is involved. The rangers then talk to each other about how they hope the future will be like. The Following: [[Power Rangers Time Force|No Hatred]], [[Power Rangers SPD|No Crimes]], [[Power Rangers RPM|No Wars]]. You know, [[Sarcasm Mode|The usual peaceful future we all dream of]].

* [[Marty Stu]]: By Zeo, everything was about Tommy. Kimberly also suffered [[Chickification]] as soon as Tommy joined the team.

* [[Memetic Badass]]: Adam

** Aisha and Kat also.

* [[Moe]]: Trini

** To be fair, they weren't so much interested in ruining Kimberly's Pan Global Games dreams. Instead, they wanted to tire her out to the point that she would suffer a horrible injury training. Still a step down from seeking ultimate power or weaponry, but there's something to be said for striking a morale blow against the Rangers.

*** Plus, by this time, they had taken her Power Coin, which she bonded her life force to, thus slowly killing her. They wanted to wear her out to the point where one good blow would take her out.

*** That was actually a plot point in "Green With Evil" when she blocked out the sun...no points if you guess the result.

** "What's the point of the Rangers having secret identities if Zedd and Rita already know who they are?"

** "Why don't Zedd and Rita send down a hundred monsters and completely overwhelm the Rangers?"

*** Again tried, they even increased the handicap by putting them in a place that disabled morphing...no points if you guess how it turned out.

* [[Narm]]: Every single line delivered when the Rangers are morphed.

* [[Narm Charm]]: Yes, this show is [[Narm]] all the way, but that doesn't keep you from enjoying it.

* [[One True Threesome]]: Rocky/Aisha/Adam. Also there are hints of Kim/Trini/any of the male rangers and Jason/Kim/Tommy.

* [[The Problem with Licensed Games]]: Averted. The 16-bit games were surprisingly good.

*** As for Barbara Goodson... ZOMG! [[Disgaea|Laharl]] is trying to conquer Earth!

*** Funny thing is, Machiko Soga, the actress who portrayed Witch Bandora (Rita Repulsa's original character) in ''ZyuRanger'', voices Rita in the Japanese dub of Power Rangers.

*** Anime dubbing dame [[Wendee Lee]] became the voice of Scorpina (and later Alpha 6 in ''[[Power Rangers in Space]]'').

* [[The Scrappy]]: All of the Aquitan Rangers. Rocky for some. Adam and Aisha fare better.

* [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying]]: So much.

* [[Special Effect Failure]]: For some reason still unknown to this day, Saban apparently couldn't get their hands on the actual ''Zyuranger'' Dragon Armor and tried to make their own. The problem is, Saban's piece is made of of shiny gold fabric, which looks completely different from the matte gold FRP original.

* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: The original Black Ranger is a black guy and the original Yellow Ranger is an Asian girl. When both left the show, their replacements gave the roles a [[Race Lift]] to fix the problem.

** [[Word of God]] says that this was unintentional, with the staff honestly not realizing the implications until after three or four episodes were in the can. Walter Jones (Zach) has said he never really had a problem with it and that the actual reasons were more along the lines of working with the ''Zyuranger'' source material. Jones originally wanted to be the Blue Ranger, but since the suit actor footage portrayed the Red and Black Rangers as close friends, Zach was made the Black Ranger to line up with his being Jason's [[Black Best Friend]].

** So, Tommy is [[Brainwashed and Crazy|forced to fight his friends]], victim of an evil enchantment every other day, is forced to fight his clone (the closest this show will get to "[[Luke, I Am Your Father]]" until ''In Space''), ''and'' still keeps fighting. Only in ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder|Dino Thunder]]'' do we actually see the implications of this.

 

 

* [[Broken Base]]: The two main camps of returning adult fans are those saying "[[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|they dumbed it down!]]" and those who feel it was [[Cool but Stupid]] [[So Bad It's Good|to begin with]]. Then there are the ''[[Super Sentai]]'' purists who already know ahead that ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' [[Macekre|was adapted from]] ''Zyuranger'', wondering how is it possible to [[Up to Eleven|"bastardize a bastardization."]]

* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: They change Zack's introductory footage in the opening from him performing his Hip Hop Kido (from the episode "Itsy Bitsy Spider") to Jason giving him a boost in a jump (from the episode "Day of the Dumpster").

 

* [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|Awesome Music]]: The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CMOgCvhZ5U "Go Go Power Rangers" theme song] was somehow made ''more'' awesome, courtesy of the Power Rangers Orchestra.

** Masaki Endō actually based his cover on ''this'' version of the song, taking it ''past'' [[Up to Eleven]].

** Likewise, the film score by Graeme Revell, ''especially'' the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H7UjJ62e-8 "Great Power" leifmotif].

* [[Critical Dissonance]]: The film was generally thrashed by critics but fans of the series tend to receive and remember it fondly. Among many things, it embodies the general fun of the series while having entirely original footage.

* [[Guilty Pleasure]]

* [[Ham and Cheese]]: Paul Freeman takes a page from [[Raul Julia]]'s book, and delivers a magnificently hammy performance as Ivan Ooze.

** And then of course, [[Power Rangers Turbo|a young kid wanting to be a Power Ranger]]. Might be a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] depending on your point of view.

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Ivan Ooze.

 

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